Coronavirus crooks exposed: New scam uses fears to steal your information
If you're not paying attention, it's easy to fall victim
Updated: 1:27 PM CST Mar 6, 2020
Hey, guys, I told you about Corona virus hoaxes a couple of weeks ago. But now something new. We have uncovered Corona virus crooks. It's a new fishing scam, using the virus to get you to cough up your email and password so criminals can steal your information. And if you're not paying attention, it is easy to fall for it. Here's what to look for. We're gonna run through this. We're in it together. You're at your computer, on your phone, you receive an email like this. In fact, this is the hoax. Email. It looks like it's from the CDC, the Center for Disease Control. Obviously a legit organization. It says in this note that it's coordinating the public health threat of the virus, and you can click on this link this one right here to see an updated list of cases around your city. You click on it, got it looks riel. But when you do when you click on that link, this page pops up. It asks for your email address and password looks like a regular Microsoft Outlook sign in page. If you do it, you are giving them a free pass to steal your data they're in. They have your info. So how can you tell This is all a scam? I wanna go back to the original e mail here. The devil's in the details. Zoom all the way in right to the top. There we go. Look at the domain. C D C dash Gove dot org's. It's pretty convincing, right? But if you see that stop, don't click on anything. Don't don't download any attachment. Why I want to show you what the rial CDC domain is. It's CDC dot gov no or GE. None of that CDC dot gov If you don't see that, don't click on anything but its key here. Very subtle difference. There is a second version of the email going around too quickly. Want to show you that it's this one right here? This one looks like it's from the CDC is, well, again using that fake domain CDC Gove dot org's. But this time the scammers ask you to make a donation for the teams making the vaccine. Let me pull out here. Funding of the above project is quite a huge costs. Yes, bad English. Another red flag in these things and we plead for your goodwill donation. Nothing is too small. The best advice Never click on links from someone you don't know. And of course, the CDC will never write to you asking for a donation. Be careful out there, back to you.
Coronavirus crooks exposed: New scam uses fears to steal your information
If you're not paying attention, it's easy to fall victim
Updated: 1:27 PM CST Mar 6, 2020
At first glance, they look like official emails, but if you look closer, you'll see it's a scam. New phishing campaigns are using the coronavirus to get people to provide their email addresses and passwords. These phishing emails appear to spoof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but they're not from the government agency. Experts like Kaspersky say that with the coronavirus heating up, we should expect to see malicious online campaigns using the epidemic as bait.Watch the video above to learn how to identify these phony emails and protect your identity. Related: Digital scams are getting more and more complex. Watch the video above, from Dispatches From the Middle, to see what you need know to protect yourself from other types of scams.
At first glance, they look like official emails, but if you look closer, you'll see it's a scam. New phishing campaigns are using the coronavirus to get people to provide their email addresses and passwords. These phishing emails appear to spoof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but they're not from the government agency.
Experts like Kaspersky say that with the coronavirus heating up, we should expect to see malicious online campaigns using the epidemic as bait.
Watch the video above to learn how to identify these phony emails and protect your identity.
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Related: Digital scams are getting more and more complex. Watch the video above, from , to see what you need know to protect yourself from other types of scams.